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Fontana storms to maiden F2 win at the Hungaroring

Bacheta edges closer to championship title

Alex Fontana ended his run of bad luck with a superb maiden
Formula Two win during today's (Friday) sun-soaked race at the
Hungaroring, powering his way from fourth on the grid to finish
ahead of pole-sitter Kevin Mirocha and Luciano Bacheta.

The 20-year-old Swiss, who hasn't been on the podium since the
opening rounds at Silverstone, benefited from an incident-packed
opening few laps before making a decisive move on race-leader Kevin
Mirocha at Turn 1 on lap four, before pulling away to take the
chequered flag.

There was drama before the lights had even gone out at the
Budapest circuit as front-row starter Markus Pommer was forced to
pull into the pits. That gave Mirocha a clean run off the line
where he wasted little time in leading the field into the first
hairpin, closely followed by Mathéo Tuscher. A poor starting
Fontana allowed Mihai Marinescu to get ahead and into third while
Bacheta was up into fifth, benefitting from Daniel McKenzie running
wide on the opening lap. A mistake by Hector Hurst at Turn 2 then
saw contact between him, David Zhu and Axcil Jefferies with Dino
Zamparelli also having to take evasive action.

Then on lap three Marinescu made contact with the back of
Tuscher's car going into Turn 1, ending his race and
dropping Tuscher right down the field before he eventually
retired.

A lap later Fontana then saw his chance to squeeze by Mirocha with
Bacheta also finding himself in a podium position while his title
rivals were nowhere to be seen. Zamparelli was also working his way
through the field after getting past newcomer Richard Gonda at the
chicane for P7, before dispatching Max Snegriev to eventually
finish sixth.

At the front, Fontana was making full use of a clear track to
build a sizeable gap while the closest battle lay for third with
McKenzie pushing his fellow countryman all the way to the line.
Fifth spot went to Christopher Zanella with Max Snegirev scoring
his first points finish of the season with seventh. Slovakian
newcomer Gonda finished a respectable eighth with Plamen Kralev and
David Zhu completing the top 10.

Speaking afterwards Fontana said: "It was a great race and a long
overdue win! The qualifying was a little disappointing given how
quick we were in free practice but it was still a good grid slot. I
did get a bit lucky with Marinescu and Tuscher making contact and
then I was able to stay behind Mirocha and use my overboost to get
past him and then my speed did the rest."

With a 47.5 point lead, Bacheta can now secure the championship
title during tomorrow's second race which gets underway at 14:30
(local time).